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Snakes in Movies   Escape From L.A. (1996)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   The only snake in this campy John Carpenter action flick is Kurt Russell, an anti-hero who calls himself Snake Plisskin, but that's all it needs to make this a snake movie. A cobra tattoo on his stomach proves who he is. The corrupt President of the country and his military tools force Snake to go on a mission to the island of Los Angeles, which was turned into a prison on foreign territory after a huge earthquake flooded its surroundings and the entire country became a conservative no-smoking, no-red-meat-eating, no fun zone. All of the criminals in the country are sent there, but in this new world, just being a Muslim in South Dakota is grounds for imprisonment. After racing a one-man submarine to the island, Snake excites a lot of ladies, surfs a tsunami with Peter Fonda, hang glides with Pam Grier and Steve Buscemi, turns into a hologram, and kills a whole lot of bad guys. We also get to see a lot of L. A. icons -the Hollywood Sign, Disneyland, the Colusseum, Sunset Blvd., Mulholland Drive, the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Queen Mary - or what's left of them. Plisskin had some previous experience 15 years earlier escaping from a maximum security prison island, that time it was Manhattan, in Escape From New York (1981).